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Copies were received at Harvard within the past few days, and though there has not yet been any organized action on a plea in the letters for support in other colleges, unofficial sources have indicated that favorable sentiment exists here in the Law School...
...General Assembly hears many violent denunciations and endless bland defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his leader's crimes. "The barrier of silence has been lifted, said Balaguer. "After the death of the man who personified the Dominican state for 30 years, a new government has gradually been modeling its institutions according to the principles of representative democracy...
...apostolic letter to the world's Roman Catholics, Pope John XXIII last week made a plea for more frequent recitation of the rosary as a way of praying for peace. "The rosary of Mary," he wrote, "becomes the elevation of a great public and universal prayer for the ordinary and extraordinary needs of the Holy Church, of the nations and of the whole world...
...address to the U.N. General Assembly. President Kennedy put forth still another U.S. offer to get started on planning for peace. This time the President picked up and took as his own the Soviet Union's perennial demand for "general and complete disarmament"-but backed up that sweeping plea with some specific proposals. Kennedy's steps toward disarmament included...
Finally, Bender made a plea for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent uncomplicated human beings ... to provide a human scale in this community of superman...